Introducing Rob Blackwell
FACILITATOR, PEER INTELLIGENCE
Rob Blackwell
Chief Content Officer and Head of External Affairs
IntraFi
Rob is the Chief Content Officer and Head of External Affairs for IntraFi. He is the
host of IntraFi’s Banking with Interest podcast, for which he interviews regulators,
lawmakers, industry executives, academics, journalists and more about the latest
policy issues in financial services. Rob previously served as Editor-in-Chief of
American Banker and covered financial services as a journalist for two decades.
As an editor and reporter, Rob has won several journalism awards, including the
Timothy White Award in 2017 for an editor whose work “displays extraordinary
courage, integrity, and passion.”
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